Portugal less than one percentage point away from reaching its target for renewable energy!

The share of the cake in renewable energy of all the energy consumed by the European Union has risen to 18%. According to Eurostat, in Portugal that slice is at 30.3%, less than one point from the target. Of all the energy consumed in the European Union in 2018, 18% came from renewable sources, 0.5 percentage points more...

07 Jul 2020 2 min reading

According to Eurostat, the Netherlands (6.6 percentage points), France (6.4 percentage points), Ireland (4.9 percentage points), the United Kingdom (4 percentage points) and Slovenia (3.9 percentage points) were the furthest from its target.

According to data also published by Eurostat this Thursday, 8% of the energy used to power transport in the European Union came from renewable sources in 2018.

Sweden has established itself as the European country with the largest share of renewable energy in the transport sector (29.7%), followed by Finland (14.1%), Austria (9.8%) and the Netherlands (9.6%). Portugal managed to secure sixth place in the European table, with a share of renewables of 9.04%.